install is hanging

[E. J. Cerejo]

Try boot from floppies instead, from a previous post:
To make these two floppies download these 3 files:
ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/floppies/kern.flp
ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/floppies/mfsroot.flp
ftp://ftp6.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe
Put them all in the same folder then bring up the dos prompt and cd into 
that directory, put an empty floppy in your floppy drive and type:
fdimage kern.flp a:
then put another floppy and run
fdimage mfsroot.flp a:
boot with floppy that has the kern.flp image first later it will ask you 
for the second one.

Mike Donovan wrote:
> When trying to install Freebsd 4.6 via CD on my old Dell desktop it stalls
> on the
> "Probing port, please wait (this may take a while)..." window.  Hitting
> alt -> F2 I see that the the system hangs each time at the line "DEBUG Can't
> open PC-card controller /dev/card0."   The system is not a laptop.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.  The CDs with FreeBSD handbook cost me $70.  I'd
> hate to find out it won't work on this system.
> 
> The computer sytem:
> 
> 200MHz Pentium MMX Mini Tower
> 
> 64 MB ram
> 
> Video card: Matrox Millenium PCI Video Board w/4 MB WRAM
> 
> Hard Drive: 3.2GB EIDE hard drive
> 
> Iomega Zip Drive
> 
> CD Rom: 12-16x EIDE CD-rom
> 
> NIC: asante nic-pci
> 
> Modem: US robotics x2 telephony 33.6/56k
> 
> 
> 
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